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Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Chris Quigg in Conversation with George Sterman. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature Robert P. Crease. The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Moduli

By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard  

Brownian Motion and Dirichlet Zeros

By Giuseppe Mussardo Professor of Theoretical Physics, SISSA (Trieste)  
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In the news

John Pardon Awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
The Simons Center Congratulates Board of Trustee Chairman Yakov Eliashberg, co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, along with Professor Claire Voisin
Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Galileo by Berthold Brecht, directed by Steve Marsh

The Art and Science Program of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics invites you to a staged reading of the play Galileo by Berthold Brecht, directed by Steve Marsh. Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:00 pm Wine and Cheese Reception SCGP Lobby and Art Gallery 7:00 pm Performance SCGP Auditoriumv Photos from the event can … Read more

Branes and Bethe Ansatz in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Workshop, March 21-25

Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics All talks before 12:00 will be held in Simons Center Room 313. All Talks after lunch will be held in the Simons Center Auditorium. Organizers: Nikita Nekrasov & Anton Kapustin Program: Monday 3/21 Tuesday 3/22 Wednesday 3/23 Thursday 3/24 Friday 3/25 8:30-9:30 Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center … Read more

Workshop on Extremal Kähler Metrics, March 21 2011- March 25, 2011

Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, Rm 102 Organizers: Xiu Xiong Chen, Claude LeBrun, Gang Tian Program:  Monday 3/21 Tuesday 3/22 Wednesday 3/23 Thursday 3/24 Friday 3/25 8:30-9:30 Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe 9:30-10:30 Jeff Cheeger [video] … Read more

Higher Spin Theories and Holography Workshop March 14 – March 18, 2011

[Download Poster] Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, RM 102 Organizers: Michael Douglas, Luca Mazzucato, Shlomo Razamat Participant List: Xavier Bekaert Alejandra Castro Chi-Ming Chang Dario Francia Simone Giombi Rajesh Gopakumar Thomas Hartman Carlo Iazeolla Antal Jevicki Kewang Jin Igor Klebanov Sung-sik Lee Ramalingam Loganayagam Hong Liu Alex Maloney Kyriakos Papadodimas Joao … Read more

Hoberman Installation

Hoberman Associates designed a dynamic installation for the Stony Brook Foundation’s new Center for Geometry and Physics. At once functional shading and art, the installation adorns the south-facing primary facade; its kinetic patterns create dynamic, ever-changing views, lighting and shadow-play while providing additional shading for the LEED Gold-status building’s lobby.  For more information about the … Read more

Iconic Wall

The Iconic Wall  is a site-specific permanent installation in the lobby of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, of stone carvings illustrating significant equations in math and physics. The work is an impressive 279″ x 240″ x 2″ in size, filling a wall 465 square feet in area. In celebration of this significant work … Read more

Simons Center Workshop on Differential Cohomology January 10, 2011- January 14, 2011

Monday, January 10 9:30-10:30 Dan Freed,  “Lecture #1 of Minicourse, “Some Uses of Differential Cohomology and Twisted K-Theory in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory” [video] 10:30-11:00  Coffee Break 11:00-12:00 Mike Hopkins, “Differential Cohomology for General Cohomology Theories and One Physical Motivation” [video] 12:00-3:00 Lunch Break 3:00-4:00 Jim Simons, “Roots of Differential Characters, The Characteristic Diagram and … Read more

ed witten’s take on string theory

An interview with Ed Witten. Witten, at the Institute for Advanced Study, is the father of M-theory and his papers shape the way we understand theoretical physics today.

Building Inauguration Conference

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Building Inauguration Conference Wednesday, November 3, 2010 9:00 am    Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh From Algebraic Geometry to Physics – a Personal Perspective [video] 10:00 am  Coffee Break, Atrium, 1st Floor 10:45 am  Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University [video] 11:45 am  Lunch 2:00 pm   Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University and Columbia … Read more

geometry and islamic art

Valerie Gonzalez works at the Institute for the Study of Islamic civilization of the Aga Khan University in London. She attended the workshop on “Strings, supersymmetry and gauge theories,” held at Stony Brook, where she told an attentive audience of string theorists and mathematicians about the close relationship between geometric abstraction and sacred art.

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